Assuming, that is, that Greeks themselves remain committed to a club that has yielded them paltry benefits relative to what might have been expected.
We must convince seniors that not only can we prevent cuts to Social Security – we can expand the paltry benefits that so many are forced to live on.
She explains, for example, how the company invoked the fundamentalist Christian teachings embraced by many of its employees to fashion a working environment that induced them to work contentedly for low wages and paltry benefits.
The last government developed an appraisal method which almost guaranteed that new roads, railways and runways would be built, regardless of the damage they might do or the paltry benefits they might deliver.
FACE A FRESH CONFLICT It is hard to say which is a worse indignity to the thousands of Iraqi soldiers and police officers who have suffered crippling injuries fighting alongside the Americans: receiving subpar medical care from the government they fought to preserve, or a new law that could slash their paltry benefits.
BAGHDAD — It is hard to say which is a worse indignity to the thousands of Iraqi soldiers and police officers who have suffered crippling injuries fighting alongside the Americans in a war that continues today: receiving subpar medical care from the government they fought to preserve, or a new law that could slash their already paltry benefits.
As of December 28, 1.3 million long-term unemployed Americans will lose some or all of their already paltry benefits.
Like the Eritreans, their motivation is not primarily economic, and certainly not the dubious appeal of Iain Duncan Smith's paltry welfare benefits.
Other sports such as horse racing, tennis and boxing have paltry pension benefits.
And if workers at Air France go ahead with their threat to strike during the World Cup, the French could score an own goal and lose even the paltry economic benefits that are on offer.
Yet deficit hawks in Congress have been refusing to extend paltry unemployment benefits or food stamps to the people hit hardest by the recession.
